Wales has been ambitious about creating the new facilities it needs to manage waste more sustainably. Faced with rising landfill taxes for councils and inevitable budget pressures, the Welsh Government has worked alongside business to create solutions. The 750m pounds Waste Infrastructure Procurement Programme supports councils in meeting EU landfill diversion and statutory recycling targets. It has two separate strands: one to deliver a network of food waste treatment plants across Wales using anaerobic digestion (AD) technology and the other to create modern residual waste treatment pro-jects, creating energy from waste (EfW) material otherwise destined for landfill.
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